SYNOPSIS: Clean cut 16-year-old Beni is a Zurich high school student just itching for an alternative life.  That opportunity comes when he goes to a rock concert where he falls madly in love with Fogi, the dangerously attractive lead singer of The Minks.  The 26-year-old Fogi surprisingly takes to the the cute, but coltish youth.  He hires him as a roadie and the two begin a wild sexual attraction that hardens into love and devotion for Beni but wears off for the soon bored Fogi.  Beni, willing victim for this first love, is emotionally eaten alive by his slavish devotion, lust and eventual servitude to the increasingly indifferent Fogi.  The two stay together however but soon sink into alienation, drug addiction and self destruction.  The teen must soon decide to venture into the dark inevitability with his love or jump off.

EDITORIAL REVIEW:  This surprisingly good, well told story is about Beni and his transformation from an impressionable youth to a bitter, jaded youth thanks partially to a love affair with a man 10 years his senior.  The story takes place in Zurich, Switzerland in 1973.  After seeing Fogi (played by Frédéric Andrau) for the first time, it's love at first site for Beni and regardless of his poor "cable wrapping" abilities, Fogi takes him on as a roadie.  It doesn't take the shy and timid Beni (brilliantly played by Vincent Branchet) too long before he opens up and makes his intentions known to Fogi.  However, as quickly as the relationship forms, Beni soon realizes that he may just be another notch in Fogi's bedpost and nothing more.  But is that enough to drive him away?  Maybe, maybe not, but certainly enough to drive Beni into the arms of any man willing to pay him for sex.

This is a cross between You Are Not Alone meets Whispering Moon, two top selling items on this webpage.  There is some definite chemistry brewing between the two heroes (a la You Are Not Alone) but one person doesn't seem to be into it too much (a la Whispering Moon).  Overall, like the two aforementioned movies, this is a well made film worth a look.

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STARRING: Frédéric Andrau, Vincent Branchet, Urs Peter Halter, Jean-Pierre von Dach.
AVAILABILITY: In stock! Ships within one business day.
LENGTH: 92 minutes.
LANGUAGE: French, with ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 1.33:1 (4:3 Letterboxed); 2.0 Stereo; 1 disc; Chapter selection; Uncut.
VIEWER DISCRETION: Moderate to frequent nudity, sexual innuendo, sexual scenes; coarse language, violence.
PICTURE QUALITY: Excellent picture quality. (what's this mean?)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Switzerland (1968).
ALSO KNOWN AS: F. est un salaud (original title) / Fögi isch en Souhund, De (Switzerland: Swiss German title) / Fögi ische Souhung, Ter (Switzerland: Swiss German title).
DATE ADDED TO OUR LIBRARY:  August 24, 2007.
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